Good acting but very strong language, voilence, and some sexual content.

Amazing movie, one of my three favorites! I could watch it 100 times and it would never get old. Though there is a couple of scenes with violence and sexual dialogue. Language throuought. You see a man commit suicide by hanging himself and many people get beaten very badly. But you notice how bad a jail is and to never do anything that would cause you to have to go to one. Amazing movie about friendship.

Love it, Great movie. over 12 years old, very good, appropriate age. umm a good tip is that, you have to a have a really long attention span, its 2 and half hours long, and every bit of it is excellent but it gets a little confusing. Great movie. If your kid is sensitive, dont watch it with them, very sad parts, some of the parts got to me, im only 13 and i can watch anything, i mean, my favorite movie is Goodfellas...i like serious stuff. but seriously, Watch the movie, it changes your perspective on stuff in life, very touching. im rambling on and on just watch the movie...you will love it. the ending made me cry and im a 13 year old boy that plays football, it makes anyone cry go ahead watch it and enjoy try not to get destracted. also.....dont regret letting your children watch disturbing things, or innapropriate stuff ive been watching family guy, south park and R rated movie since i was 8 and im think skinned and i got a good perspective on life, and innapropriate movies like shawshank will teach your children to think twice about commiting a crime, expose your children to this kind of stuff it grows a thick skin on them de-sensitizes them but not to much

It's a really good movie that doesn't need to much worrying, but there is a bit of profanity and some disturbing images of prison and prison violence. Rape is somewhat depicted but rather briefly, but the emotion in this movie may be too intense for children to bare.

This movie is highly underrated and thought of as just another "new guy in prison" type of movie but, the messages of friendship make this movie one in a million. The movie chronicles Andy Dufrasne, a man wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. He meets "Red" a man who can get "anything for anybody" which is a common role in prison movies he even says, "there must be one like me in every prison". These unlikely friends help save each other in the end, Andy saves Red's soul, which was calloused from prison life. And Red saved Andy, teaching him all he needed to know about prison life. Although there is some lude remarks and alcohol consumption in the movie, the good definately outweighs the bad in this case. (SPOILER ALERT) If you have ever seen a prison movie ending you know the ending to The Shawshank Redemption. Both Andy and Red gain redemption in a dismal, dark prison by doing good deeds for one another. As you know, Red will escape Shawshank, Andy will escape Shawshank, but your soul will never escape The Shawshank Redemption.

Wow! What a great movie from a Stephen King story. Usually Stephen King book adaptations are not that good and some are and one of the good ones is the Shawshank Redemption. Great acting by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. The ending always makes me smile:)

"The Green Mile" is one of my favorite films of all time, so when I saw Darabont had previously directed this AND this film was #1 on IMDB I had to see it. Luckilly it came on TV and I got to watch it. Absolutely amazing film, not to be missed by anyone, film lover or not! The acting is so subtle and rich and Darabont takes his time coming to the climax of the film, and it's so obvious you could've kicked yourself for not realizing it. This is an absolutly masterful film to be seen by everyone!

This movie isnt bad at all in my opinion, its been my favorite movie sense I was 7.

This is such a great story. However, it has a lot of cussing and beating, so I wouldn't recommend it for young children. One of the best Stephen King movies!